And Solomon gathered seventy thousand men and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and the overseers over them were three thousand six hundred.
And behold, I, his son, am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it for him, to burn incense before him, and continual showbread, and to offer up burnt offerings continually, morning and at evening, and on the sabbaths and on the new moons and on the feasts of the Lord our God forever; this is upon Israel.
And who will be able to build a house for him, for the heaven and the heaven of heaven do not bear his glory? And who am I, building a house for him, except only to burn incense before him?
And now send me a wise man, and one knowing to work in gold and in silver and in bronze and in iron and in purple and in scarlet and in hyacinth, and one knowing to engrave engraving, with the wise men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David prepared.
And send me cedar wood and juniper wood and pine wood from Lebanon, because I know that your servants know how to cut wood from Lebanon, and behold, your servants are with my servants.
And behold, for the workers who cut wood, I have given wheat as food for your servants, twenty thousand cors, and twenty thousand cors of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
And Hiram said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who made the heaven and the earth, who gave to David the king a son wise and understanding and knowledge, who will build a house for the Lord and a house for his kingdom.
his mother was from the daughters of Dan, and his father was a Tyrian man, knowing how to work in gold and in silver and in bronze and in iron, in stones and woods, and to weave in the purple and in the hyacinth and in the fine linen and in the scarlet, and to engrave engravings and to devise every device; whatever you may give him, with your wise men and the wise men of David my lord your father
And we will cut wood from Lebanon according to all your need, and we will bring them by rafts to the sea of Joppa, and you shall bring them up to Jerusalem
And Solomon gathered all the men, the proselytes, in the land of Israel, according to the numbering with which David his father had numbered them, and they were found to be one hundred fifty thousand and three thousand six hundred.